Fresh Produce Thursday— find a good supply of healthy organic vegetables! Greens this week are ORG Red Swiss Chard, ORG Lacinato Kale (yummy in soup!), ORG Taylor Farms Kale Caesar Salad Kit, Organic Girl Crunchy Greens (no spinach), Organic Girl Baby Spinach, and Greybull Valley Greenleaf Lettuce. Fruit on hand is ORG Honeycrisp Apples from Washington state, Navel Oranges (no Heirloom’s yet), ORG lemons, Rio Star Grapefruit, and ORG Red Pears (they’re back!)–
Special Boxes this week(Group A): Kale Caesar Salad Kit, ORG Peelz Mandarin Oranges (2#), Bok Choi, Ginger root, colored Bell Pepper, carrots, and zucchini (all organic and all perfect in a stir fry served on Koyo Udon noodles or Lotus Foods Red Rice). Still time to sign-up–cost is $35 each box, either weekly or every other week (leap-frog). Special Box program is a great way to assure a consistent supply of fresh, healthy vegetables! Like something? Shop the store!
New to Bee Healthy:4 SigmaticMushroom THINK Coffee (dark roast grounds or packets of instant coffee, elixir, or cacao), as well as a Laird’sFunctional Mushroom Coffee coming Friday (cordyseps, chaga, and lion’s mane). For those folks interested in healing or calming coffee we also have 4 Sigmatic Adaptogenic BALANCE (half-caffeine ground coffee with Ashwagandha and Eleuthero–medium roast).
We have mushrooms throughout the store: Herbal Coffees (chicory), Teas, Extracts, Supplements, Powders, drinks…. the value of mushrooms is ancient and powerful!
Full store, lots to look at and ponder, healthy options at every turn! Monday-Friday 10:00 to 5:30, Saturday 10:00 to 5:00– STOP IN and visit!!
For the last day of the year, we have items that need to move to make room for NEW:Greybull Valley Greenleaf lettuce ($2.25)…Grazier’s DELICIOUS Whole Milk Yogurt (Qt size–$3.75), Green Valley Lactose Free (Cottage Cheese $6.50/ Yogurt $4.75), Organic Valley Half-and-Half ($4.45 regular and $4.75 Milkgrass Pasture-grazed)…All Organic.That’s TastyOregano, Mint, Rosemary Herbs packets ($2.50) Also Mushrooms reduced to move (Crimini $4.50 and Shiitake $5.50)…and HOMEMADE Banana Bread baked last night!
NEW: MUSHROOM Coffee (Four Sigmatic THINK with Lion’s Mane, actual ground coffee to run fresh through your coffee maker or press)…individual packets of several different varieties of mushrooms with instant coffee, cocoa mix, and golden latte. Come and check it out!
AND MUCH MORE!! Bee Healthy, 635 Big Horn Ave, Worland…10:00 to 5:00 Saturday…open again January 2nd, 10:00 to 5:30 HAPPY NEW YEAR–2024!!
Wow! Monday is Christmas Day—how can that be? First…that Christmas is this close, and NEXT that 2023 is nearly gone! Bee Healthy will be open through Saturday (closing time is 5:00 pm), and then reopen Tuesday at 10:00 am. We want to be here for you and help with your Holiday Dinner and Gift giving! On that note– We have the following for the Holidays:
Ocean Spray CRANBERRIES (12 oz) $2.75 and 2 recipes to help you CREATE:Cranberry Crumble Bars(add Oranges and Almond Flour) AND Cranberry and Wine Crisps(lots of fresh Navel Oranges at Bee Healthy!)
Turkey’s- Mary’s Natural, no hormones or antibiotics, pasture-raised, roughly 9#@$5.87/#. (7 left in the freezer– allow 36 to 48 hours to thaw) These are ordered months in advance to assure we have them for the holidays!
Lots of Potatoes (Lloyd Craft Farms–locally grown, organic principles):Huckleberry Gold (Yukons with purple skins), Red Norland’s, and Russet’s. Bake the Russets in the oven, the Huckleberry’s are great cut up (with the skins on) and mashed or boiled, and the Red’s are always the best and the favorite of most folks…including me!
Also Onions and Winter Squash from The Farm—Red’s were beautiful this year, White’s are the Sierra Blanca or Superstar variety with a nice sweet taste when caramelized, the all All American Yellow’s (Candy for the Sweet, and a 3# bag of , agood storage onion), and half dozen Green Onions from Spokane Produce. Winter Squash— Hubbard type, Spaghetti, Delicata and Carnival, Butternut, and last of the Honey Bear Acorn Squash—
Specialties this week from Spokane Produce: Fennel Bulbs, Carrots (1# Cliptop, 2# Rainbow, 12oz Mini Rainbow’s), wide selection of Herbs (Roasting Blend, Oregano, Rosemary, and Mint), Taylor Farms Green Beans (prepackaged and washed), lots of Greens (Salad Mix, Baby Spinach, Swiss Chard and Kale, Greybull Valley Greenleaf lettuce), Japanese Sweet Potatoes and Garnet Yams (both organic), and more of the usual good food for good bodies that we always carry at Bee Healthy!
Don’t forget the small gift ideas…Local Artisan Jewelry ($40 to $99 each), wide selection of Salt Lamps, Incense (and Smudge Sticks and Palo Santo sticks), and a new selection of bracelets and polished rocks and crystals from Rock Paradise! We have a few Diaries left and some hanging Mobiles, too! Not to forget the goodies in the Tea and Coffee corner (sorry iron teapots are gone!)–
Stop in and visit! Open until 5:30 Friday and 10:00 to 5:00 on Saturday, Closed Sunday’s– Merry Christmas! Bee Healthy 635 Big Horn Ave, Worland–
“The Pomegranate Tree has a long and colorful history–ancient records indicate they are native to Iran and have been cultivated for centuries throughout the Mediterranean region, including Asia, Africa, Europe, and northern India, where they were used to prevent and treat many diseases and ailments.”
Pomegranate, high in anti-oxidants, also nourishes the heart, brain, kidneys, skin, bones, and has been shown to be important for cancer prevention. Fresh pomegranate juice increases insulin levels and can help those pre-diabetic, and with a glycemic index of 18 is A-okay for diabetics, too . Recent pomegranate juice studies have shown that the juice results in higher testosterone levels and folate which is necessary for conception and protects the fetus’s brain. (Epoch Times, Nov 3, 2023–Sandra Cesca.)
TIPS–
*Raw seeds have highest vitamin C concentration.
*Drink the juice in the morning, on an empty stomach, for maximum nutrient absorption.
*Sprinkle pomegranate seeds on salads or yogurt with granola.
*Make a smoothie with pomegranate juice, bananas, and yogurt.
*Mix Pomegranate juice, rice vinegar, oil, garlic, and sugar to make a salad dressing.
BEE HEALTHY HAS 22 Pomegranates IN STOCK! ORG- $2.99. AND also Langer Farms Fresh Pressed Pomegranate Juice (not from concentrate) $6.80 Quart. AND Just Date ORG Pomegranate Molasses- $9.25 squeeze bottle to be used as a sugar substitute.
Cranberries are equally exciting…and just as nutritious! (Specific info for a different post…) Stop in at Bee Healthy, purchase a bag of Ocean Spray Cranberries (12oz $3.75)– Organic out of stock. Pick up an easy and delicious Christmas recipe called Cranberry Crumble Bars–these Bars can even be made ahead, and freeze well! …Cranberries, oranges, almond flour, and healthy eggs can also be purchased at Bee Healthy.
Which now brings us to the epitome of the HOLIDAY’S…Hams and Turkeys! We have a limited amount of Beeler’s Spiral Cut Half Hams– average 8#, $6.46/#…cleanest pork products on the market! A large number of Beeler’s Quarter Hams, fully cooked, average 1-3/4#, $8.91/#…Turkeys are Mary’s pasture raised, natural, also clean meats– Average 9#, $5.87/#. 10% discount applies to sales over $100…
Come in and shop….check out our Christmas gift ideas, too: Salt Lamps, Incense, and Candles from Aloha Bay. Rock Paradise polished rocks, spheres and bracelets. Artisan jewelry in the jewelry cases. Queen Bee chocolates, honey caramels, and Beeswax candles. Wide selection of Lily’s and Chocolove chocolate bars…Equal Exchange, Taza Mexican chocolate, Alter Eco, HU bars, and Sunridge Farms Dark Chocolate Espresso Beans! Tis the season for giving! (and sharing good eats and meals with friends and family…)
Bee Healthy, 635 Big Horn Ave, Worland–Monday – Friday 10:00 to 5:50 (closed Christmas), and Saturday 10:00 to 5:00– always!
The truck from Washington delivered today! And The Farmer brought in several heads of green cabbage from The Farm. Cooler is well stocked with greens, cucumbers and zucchini, broccoli and kale, green onions and 3# bags of Yellow onions, and much more! Abundance of oranges and two kinds of apples, bananas…Ocean Spray Cranberries for $3.75-
We have more homemade Banana Bread— Bryant Raw Honey and ORG coconut oil, eggs and ripe mashed ORG bananas, Montana Wheat flour, baking soda, and salt— good clean ingredients!! $3.99 small loaves, $7.99 large.
Store is well stocked with good healthy groceries, clean personal care products, essential oils and diffusers, tea corner with assesories, and newly stocked rock jewelry and polished rocks. (More arriving for Christmas giving—)
Gift Certificates for the seasons giving and Aloha Bay candles and Salt Lamps! Stop in and check it out!
We got our antibiotic free, natural, no added hormones turkeys and ham.
Beeler’s Ham is spiral cut, Half Ham—$6.46/# (average 7#’s)…uncured, fully cooked. These are ‘clean’ meats!
Mary’s Turkeys are pasture raised and average 9#. Cost is $5.87/#, frozen so allow time to thaw for Thanksgiving…or purchase one for Christmas.
Add herbs found in the glass cooler… Poultry Blend, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme. Winter squash from Lloyd Craft Farms!
All turkeys and half hams are special ordered for the holidays, and will not be available again until next November. (We have Beeler’s Quarter Hams in the cooler and frozen…these are stocked all year round!)
Try some of our seasonal Organic Valley Eggnog and organic Red Potatoes for mashed potatoes (great flavor). Use the Almond Malk in the place of milk for a dairy-free potato dish!
Bee Healthy is open 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. This week we will be open everyday EXCEPT Thursday for Thanksgiving! Have a great day with family and friends—be healthy to be happy!
The truck from Spokane made it in later than usual on Wednesday, but we got it all done!! Produce is fluffed up and in the cooler ready for you! Good prices, good quality. BROAD SELECTION–
NEW THIS WEEK—Variety of packaged Herbs in the cooler: all organic, 4 oz, $3.25 each: Poultry Blend, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and also Mint. Bundles of organic Flat Italian Parsley and Curley Parsley, $4.25… Just in time for Thanksgiving! But lets not limit herbs to Holidays–They enhance the flavor of many dishes and add nutritional value–
PLENTY OF GREENS this week:Greybull ValleyGreenleaf,Taylor Farms Organic Kale Caesar Salad Mix, Organic Girl 50/50 Spring Salad/Spinach (marked down to $4.50), also Organic GirlBaby Salad Mix and Organic GirlBaby Spinach… Mature and healthy Rainbow Swiss Chard, 2 kinds of Kales…courtesy of Ralph’s Greenhouse, LLC.
More potatoes, onions, pumpkins, and winter squash from The Farm, Broccoli, Cauliflower, ORG Leeks from Spokane…ORG Red Beets, ORG Rainbow and Cliptop Carrots, ORG Oyster Mushrooms, ORG fresh Cranberries, ORG Cucumbers. AND MORE!
New FROM THE FARM— Sunchokes.We fried some up with Huckleberry Gold potatoes and Leeks for dinner last night…Sunchokes and a romaine salad, with a side of cooked Rainbow Carrots. (I don’t see veggies as much as potassium, vitamins, minerals, and fiber…) Yummy good, my gut is happy!
The following excerpt from Commonsensehome.com explains Sunchokes better than I can:
Sunchokes are edible raw or cooked, including the skins. They are difficult to peel and turn grey quite quickly, so a good scrubbing is a better option.
Raw, sunchokes are similar in texture to a water chestnut or jicama. After a light frost, they take on a somewhat nutty flavor. For my part, they taste best raw after a frost.
To help prevent browning of sliced sunchokes, soak the tubers in a mix of 2 tablespoons lemon juice (or ¼ cup vinegar) and one quart water.
Sunchokes need to be treated as their own vegetable. Boiled and mashed – plain awful; in a stir fry, tasty. There are entire websites devoted to sunchoke recipes, but here are a few easy options for you to try.
Baked sunchokes – Bake well-scrubbed tubers at 350F for 30-40 minutes, until fork tender. Toss with a bit of oil and seasonings before baking for extra flavor.
Sunchoke stir fry – Substitute sunchokes for water chestnuts in your favorite stir fry recipe.
Steamed sunchokes – Steam whole sunchokes for 10-15 minutes. Shorten steaming time if cubed or sliced. Serve with butter and a sprinkle of parsley, or a dash of lemon and dusting of nutmeg.
Sunchoke chips – Thinly slice sunchokes and drop into hot oil. Fry chips until lightly browned and drain on a paper bag. Salt and season warm chips to taste.
Do Sunchokes Cause Gas?
Sunchokes are loaded with inulin.
Inulin is a type of starch that although not digestible by humans, acts as a prebiotic in the digestive tract, feeding our beneficial bacteria.
It’s become a widely use filler in many foods to bump up the fiber counts. It also increases calcium absorption in the body, and doesn’t spike blood sugar. (See the book “Perennial Vegetables” for all the dirty details.) There are even sweeteners made for diabetics made out of sunchokes.
Some sources claim that eating a large amount of sunchokes may lead to mild gas for those who are not used to it. They have even been nicknamed, “fartichokes”.
I can testify that eating a large portion of boiled sunchokes will give you horrible, gut-racking gas like you have never experienced before…well, except for that one time when you were pregnant and thought it was a good idea to eat prunes, cheese curds and cucumbers in large amounts all at the same time.
Start slowly when eating sunchokes, and perhaps avoid serving them in large quantities at dinner parties. Give your digestive system time to build up the right bacteria to deal with the extra inulin.
Readers have suggested a couple of different tips to beat sunchoke gas. One suggested that you eat some sunchokes raw, and don’t scrub all the dirt off.
I assume that some soil microbes come with to help aid digestion. Another reader says that harvesting after frost is a big help, as the frost naturally breaks down some of the inulin for you.
STOP IN AND SHOP! We will be closed next Thursday for Thanksgiving, but open our regular hours on Wednesday and Friday! (pssst….I have one turkey and one spiral ham left…)
BEE HEALTHY, 635 Big Horn Ave, Worland…Monday-Friday 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Be Healthy!!
Lloyd Craft Farms garden is done, but onions and winter squash live on!! In the glass cooler TODAY the last of the Snack peppers, Orange bell peppers and Green bell peppers, Jalapeño peppers, and Swiss chard…3 bundles of Parsley from the high tunnel. The Organic Red potatoes are marked down so we can bring in the locally grown Huckleberry Golds, Yukons, and Purple Vikings from The Farm.
Other veggies stocked are Greenleaf Lettuce from Greybull Valley, and Taylor FarmsKale Caesar Salad Mix, Organic Girl 50/50 Baby Salad Mix and Baby Spinach. Lots of Yams and Sweet Potatoes. Fruit this week are organic Honeycrisp Washington Apples, Rio Star Pink Grapefruit, organic Lemons, and organic Red Pears.All produce fresh and reasonably priced!
The MORE IS 10% off sliced Meats in the glass cooler: Mary’sChicken Breast, ApplegateOven Roasted Turkey Breast,ApplegateFamily Pack Uncured Ham…and Charcutnuvo ‘Wild Game’ Bratwurst (smoked pork, elk, jalapeños, cheddar)— quality meats, excellent flavor!
MUCH MORE in the rest of the store! Gift items coming in weekly, tea corner stocked with new bulk herbs, wide selection of herbal and medicinal extracts, mushroom products, and a wall full of supplements from Nature’s Sunshine, Now, Nutribiotic, Wellgenix, Pure Essence, and Quantum Health…Gaia Turmeric, too!
Check out the SEASONAL EGG NOG from Organic Valley…and Riverton Raspberries, 1# bags berries individually froze!
STOP IN! Take advantage of the PRODUCE, and SPECIAL PRICING on fresh meats in the glass cooler.
M-F 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. New stock on the shelves every Monday.
Sweet peppers and Jalapeños, all kinds of cabbages, cauliflower, dried jumbo onions, last of the celery and broccolini, fresh parsley, and a wide selection of winter squash and pumpkins, all from Lloyd Craft Farms. Orange Bell Peppers and celery are outstanding!! Hope to have some freshly dug Sunchokes in the cooler by Friday–
Healthy greens from Greybull Valley Produce: Greenleaf and Romaine. Organic Swiss chard, Kale from The Farm. Organic Girl Baby Spinach and 50/50 Salad Mix— 5 oz clamshells.
Organic carrots, red beets, cilantro, sweet potatoes, garlic, and red potatoes, too! Organic Roma Tomatoes— $.59 each.
Bananas, Honeycrisp apples from Washington, and red pears, all organic and firm with superior flavor! A few grapefruit and organic lemons. Ginger root in a jar in the bottom of the cooler. 🙂
Riverton Raspberries in the freezer section—vine ripened and individually frozen before bagged! Reasonably priced—
AND fresh Cranberries, just in time for Thanksgiving but good for so much more! As well as fresh herb bundles of Oregano, Sage, Savory from The Farm, and organic Thyme from Spokane. Bundle mixes are $3.75 each.
This week, fresh baked Banana Bread using Bryant honey and Wheat Montana Prairie Gold flour—-yummy!
Best produce in TOWN…we are told…we think so too! 😉
Bee Healthy, 635 Big Horn Ave, Worland—Monday through Friday 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
3 Boxes at Bee Healthy for pick up today. Text 431-1219 to reserve. Harvesting rest of tomatoes this week, but only for need. Orders will be ready Wednesday or Thursday.
Season is a-changing! (Hot and sweet peppers, onions also available—)
PUMPKINS IN OCTOBER! Lloyd Craft Farms pumpkins, sold exclusively through Bee Healthy.
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